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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>JEREMIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 52
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Jerusalem besieged and taken by the Chaldeans—Many people and the vessels of the house of the Lord carried into Babylon.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 24: 18; 2 Chr. 36: 10 (10-13)."><span class='smallcaps'>Zedekiah</span></a> <i>was</i> one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.  And his mother’s name <i>was</i> Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
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And he did <i>that which was</i> evil in the eyes of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
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For through the anger of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 24: 20; 2 Chr. 36: 13; Jer. 27: 17 (12, 16-17); Jer. 39: 4 (1-10); Ezek. 17: 15; 1 Ne. 1: 4.">Zedekiah</a> rebelled against the king of Babylon.
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&#182; And it came to pass in the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 25: 1; Jer. 39: 1; Ezek. 24: 1.">ninth</a> year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth <i>day</i> of the month, <i>that</i> Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/52/4b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR siege-walls.">forts</a> against it round about.
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So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
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And in the fourth month, in the ninth <i>day</i> of the month, the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/6a" mark="a" type="C" title="Lam. 4: 4 (4, 8-10); Amos 4: 6; TG Famine.">famine</a> was sore in the city, so that there was no <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/52/6b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR food.">bread</a> for the people of the land.
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Then the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jerusalem.">city</a> was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which <i>was</i> by the king’s garden; (now the Chaldeans <i>were</i> by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
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&#182; But the army of the Chaldeans <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 25: 5 (1-27).">pursued</a> after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
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Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.
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And the king of Babylon slew the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hel. 6: 10; Hel. 8: 21.">sons</a> of Zedekiah before his eyes: he <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/52/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 25: 21 (19-21); Jer. 39: 6; Ezek. 11: 10.">slew</a> also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
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Then he put out the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 39: 7; Ezek. 12: 13.">eyes</a> of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/52/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="Omni 1: 15.">carried</a> him to <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/52/11c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Israel, Bondage of, in Other Lands.">Babylon</a>, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
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&#182; Now in the fifth month, in the tenth <i>day</i> of the month, which <i>was</i> the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, <i>which</i> served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 25: 9; Jer. 39: 8; Ezek. 16: 41.">burned</a> the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great <i>men,</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/52/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 21: 10; Jer. 34: 2; Jer. 37: 8; Jer. 38: 3.">burned</a> he with fire:
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And all the army of the Chaldeans, that <i>were</i> with the captain of the guard, brake down all the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Dan. 9: 25.">walls</a> of Jerusalem round about.
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Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 1: 3; 1 Ne. 1: 13; 1 Ne. 10: 13 (12-13); 2 Ne. 25: 10 (10-11).">carried</a> away captive <i>certain</i> of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/52/15b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR had deserted.">fell</a> away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
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But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left <i>certain</i> of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
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Also the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 27: 19 (16-22).">pillars</a> of brass that <i>were</i> in the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and the bases, and the brasen <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/52/17b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Temple.">sea</a> that <i>was</i> in the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/18a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR pans.">caldrons</a> also, and the shovels, and the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/52/18b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE instruments to extinguish lamps.">snuffers</a>, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
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And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; <i>that</i> which <i>was</i> of gold <i>in</i> gold, and <i>that</i> which <i>was</i> of silver <i>in</i> silver, took the captain of the guard away.
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The two pillars, one <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/20a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Baptism.">sea</a>, and <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/52/20b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 7: 25.">twelve</a> brasen <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/52/20c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Temple.">bulls</a> that <i>were</i> under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
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And <i>concerning</i> the pillars, the height of one pillar <i>was</i> eighteen cubits; and <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/21a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB a line; i.e. its circumference was twelve cubits, about eighteen feet, or five and one half meters.">a</a> fillet of twelve <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/52/21b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 7: 15.">cubits</a> did compass it; and the thickness thereof <i>was</i> four fingers: <i>it was</i> hollow.
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And a <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/22a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR decorative head of column.">chapiter</a> of brass <i>was</i> upon it; and the height of one chapiter <i>was</i> five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all <i>of</i> brass.  The second pillar also and the pomegranates <i>were</i> like unto these.
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And there were <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 7: 20 (18-20).">ninety</a> and six pomegranates on a side; <i>and</i> all the pomegranates upon the network <i>were</i> an hundred round about.
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&#182; And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
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He took also out of the city an <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/25a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR officer.">eunuch</a>, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/52/25b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 25: 19.">men</a> of them that were near the king’s person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.
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So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
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And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath.  Thus Judah was carried away <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/27a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lam. 1: 3 (1-3).">captive</a> out of his own land.
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This <i>is</i> the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
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In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:
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In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/30a" mark="a" type="A" title="Dan. 9: 11 (1-27).">captive</a> of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons <i>were</i> four thousand and six hundred.
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&#182; And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth <i>day</i> of the month, <i>that</i> Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the <i>first</i> year of his reign lifted up the head of <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/31a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 37: 1.">Jehoiachin</a> king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison,
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And spake <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/32a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 25: 28 (27-30).">kindly</a> unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/52/32b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 27: 3.">kings</a> that <i>were</i> with him in Babylon,
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And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.
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And <i>for</i> his diet, there was a continual <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/52/34a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR allowance.">diet</a> given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
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